• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And then there’s movies like Dr Strangelove, where I had no idea that old movies could be that entertaining still. Though it has been at least a decade since I watched it, I bet it still stands, even if it invented the iconic “ride a nuke like a cowboy” image.

    Also the whole Soviets built a doomsday device but didn’t tell the world about it, which reality copied (eventually they told the world).

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      1 day ago

      I mean it isn’t an automated doomsday device, just some generals in a bunker who could send the command if moscow vanishes, the same way the US president can via the Nuclear Football.

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        22 hours ago

        As I recall, it was a combo of automated and manual and they went public with the info because they lost knowledge of how it all worked.